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Seeded Pecan Granola
The New York Times, Morgan Bordenave, Jon & Vinny's
901 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
901
1 hour 15 minutes
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Heat the oven to 300 degrees. Line two baking sheets with parchment. Toss together all of the dry ingredients in a very large bowl.
Combine the oil, honey, and vanilla in a saucepan and warm over low heat, stirring, just until the mixture is fluid. Do not let it come to a simmer. Remove from the heat and stir into the dry ingredients. Mix until evenly coated.
Spread the granola mixture on the sheet pans in an even layer, leaving a donut hole in the center (for even baking) and bake on the middle and lower racks, without stirring, for 30 to 40 minutes or until golden, rotating the baking pans front to back and top to bottom halfway through. Remove from the heat and allow to cool before breaking up into clumps. Store in well sealed jars, bags or containers.
I like using coconut oil with this granola. I also like using half honey and half maple syrup. And, yes, more nuts and seeds (almonds and sunflower seeds especially.
Caution: do not add dried fruit with all the other dry ingredients; they get charred at 300 deg F for 30 mins. (Raisins particularly.). I ruined a few batches by following this part of the recipe. Put them in uncooked at the end.
Very pleasant - not too sweet, with a soft texture. I added some orange zest and used dried cranberries as the dried fruit. A keeper!
I agree with others, this is a great base recipe, but does need some tweaking. (thus the 4 stars instead of 5). My favorite variation is with 1 cup pistachios, 1 cup almonds, and no cinnamon. I use olive oil. I'll try coconut oil as per an earlier suggestion. The three times I've made this (as written, with walnuts and less honey and the variation above), I've added the fruit after cooking.
To make this more versatile, I omit the nutmeg, cinnamon and dried fruit and let my family add whatever fruit or flavorings appeal to them. Like other reviewers, I've substituted different combinations of nuts and seeds for some of the dry ingredients. I found the 1/2 teaspoon of salt to be too much, so I add 1/4 teaspoon or less.
This is addictive! My version combines a bit of Melissa Clark's recipe with this one by using apricots, olive oil and maple syrup. So I use half coconut oil, thanks to an earlier comment here, half olive oil, dried apricots and blueberries, chopped pecans, added for the last ten or fifteen minutes of baking. Sweeten with half honey half maple syrup. Sprinkled on oatmeal, or by itself with some soy, or other, milk, it's a great breakfast.
Fabulous recipe, easily varied with different nuts, seeds, and dried fruit combos. Sesame seeds are a nice addition. For crispier, clumpier granola substitute coconut oil for the liquid oils mentioned in the recipe. Raisins and other chopped dried fruit (except coconut chips) in tend to scorch in baking, so I sprinkle them on after the sheet pans come out of the oven.
An excellent base recipe. I've added about a 1/2 cup each of dry milk, flax seeds, pumpkin seeds, and sunflower seeds.
Great recipe for granola. I leave out the coconut and substitute pumpkin seeds. I agree with one of the responders that raisins and other fruits can be added at the time of eating. I left out the vanilla. I used a combo of hazlenuts and almonds, and put in more like 1-1/2 cups altogether. We serve this over fruit and yogurt or cottage cheese, and/or eat it out of hand. One of us uses it just like cereal with milk, but I like the different ways to use it. The baking instructions are perfect.
I've made this a lot--it's a good framework and you can adjust to load up with nuts or dried fruits or whatever you like more of in the mix. I find the cooking time is too long and/or the temp too high: any longer than 20 minutes at 275 and the oats go far past "golden."
Great base recipe. Like others I use coconut oil. My sisters shared with me that if you press the mixture flat with a spatula prior to baking it will clump more. I don’t expect to ever buy granola again!
300 degrees is too low to make this truly crispy!
I found 30 minutes was too long for my oven. 25 was perfect so be sure to check it at the 25 minute mark.
I use a 50/50 mix of clover honey and maple syrup. If you soak your raisins in water prior to baking they do not get burnt. You can also you chai (pre-made spice) and any seed (pumpkin, sesame, sunflower) also 1-2 T of ground flax is nice.
Love this recipe! I didn't have oat bran so I used wheat bran, adds a delicious nuttiness. I also skip the coconut and dried fruit and sometimes add pumpkin seeds.
I followed the recommendation to "not stir" while changing the two baking sheets midway, and realized later that the bottoms were browning very fully while the tops still looked underdone (in fact a little bit of the mixture was starting to burn at the edges). I think next time I will indeed stir the granola halfway through baking. (I also did not add the dried fruit until the end. Mixed a bit of the oil into the fruit while the rest baked, and added it into the warm granola once baked.)
I made it as written and it’s lovely.
Good basic granola, skipped at all the dried raisins (my husband hates them), doubled the amount of various nuts, and I loved the spices...
Great base recipe. Like others I use coconut oil. My sisters shared with me that if you press the mixture flat with a spatula prior to baking it will clump more. I don’t expect to ever buy granola again!
Good basic recipe. Used 7 cups dry to 1 cup oil and honey. 1/4 tsp of almond extract, T of vanilla, dashes of salt.
Add dry fruits after baking to avoid charring Use olive and coconut oil instead
I used coconut oil and some premixed muesli and it was delicious!
Halved the cinnamon Used regular salt Added tiny bit of almond extract Used pecans 1c and oats about 5-5 1/2 Cooked 15 minutes, moved sheet pans, cooked 10 more added fruit and cooked 5 more
Add 1/2 c sunflower seeds. Substitute coconut oil. Add 1 egg white to make it clump. Use maple syrup instead of honey. Add dried fruits after baking.
Added fruit after cooking, as recommended to avoid burning. Added more nuts (pecans and walnuts). Also 1/2 cup Sesame Seeds. Added a mix of Crystallized Ginger, Golden Raisins, Dried Cherries, a few chopped dates from my brother Jim's palms.
Wow! Clumps! I've made granola tons of times with different recipes. It never came out of the oven with clumps, and convinced myself I didn't like or need them anyway. I followed this recipe, substituting a few ingredients but keeping ratios the same, and finally achieved this granola holy grail.
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